Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …

The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital … of various skill dimensions for success in the labor market. This paper examines the returns to cognitive, personality … their labor market relevance. A synthesis and integration of the evidence on the relationship between multidimensional …

income for different education groups and to estimate the level of consumption smoothing. We split households into three … groups based on educational attainment: primary education, secondary school, and university. We find that the university … with less education. This implies that investing in education is an investment not only in higher income and sometimes more …

Research studying connections between crime and education is a prominent aspect of the big increase of publication and … research interest in the economics of crime field. This work demonstrates a crime reducing impact of education, which can be … interpreted as causal through leveraging research designs (e.g., based on education policy changes) that ensure the direction of …

This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … positive or a negative education premium. In the same model a positive intertemporal wedge is optimal. A set of generalizations …, including non-observability of education, non-observability of consumption, and temporal resolution of uncertainty, are then …

In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled … enhancing the quality of education. The necessary expenditures are optimally financed by regressive tuition fees and the net …